On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:22:42PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I'm in Richland Hills, Texas, and need to borrow a Debian CD (preferably > recent Woody/Sid, preferably pressed rather than burned (which may mean > Potato) since her CD drive is old and has trouble with burned CDs) just > long enough to copy the ppp package off to my Mom's computer. I'm > leaving town to go back home tomorrow afternoon (Sunday PM), so if I > can't get her back online tomorrow, she'll be down until I can get back > in about 3 weeks. Her floppy drive is bad (thus the need for the file on > CD), and she's lost her internet capability (thus the need for the ppp > package).
Do you have a shell account with some ISP? Or is it otherwise possible for her to phone into some machine with a net connection? In that case just elaborating on my `no need to go overboard with Perl' example should make it possible to get here the ppp-deb might you have left. [ you could even setup your home machine to temporarily pick up the phone and allow her in, now that would be something :] -- groetjes, carel
